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Mail.app not working. Need to backup before reinstalling.

My mail.app has stopped responding. No matter what I do it crashes every time I try to open it. Talking to some experts, they advised me to reinstall the application. I am worried as I have not setup the Time Machine backup and there are some email folders that are important. I have no backup of them. I wanted to know how can I backup the email folders and contact lists as well if I am going to reinstall the mail.app application?

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good backup utility

What have you done to try and fix the problem? Do you know that you will have to reinstall all of OS X? Buy a suitable drive to use as a backup drive. Then use a good backup utility to make the backup.

Found the solution. Thanks!

I never knew that I would have to restore my Mac Osx completely. Thanks for the heads-up. Now about the backup utility, I tested all the tools you have mentioned and it seems like Mail Backup X is topping in all the fields. This application has multiple options. One suffering with the same situation as me should definitely go for mail backup x. Thanks for the solution.

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